To Care Enough

For more than fifty years Bob Fine taught in family studies education religious studies human services and the Holocaust. He also worked professionally in human services bringing his academic interests to bear on real-life problems of people in distress. In this new collection of essays he explores his own life journey-from a difficult childhood to his cherished role as father and grandfather-and argues with passion and wit on such wide-ranging topics as parenting public education bigotry violence and the life-affirming properties of American jazz.